December 11, 2017

News for the IET

SRM Institute of Science and Technology Attains Benchmark of International Quality via The IET International Accreditationedit

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SRM Institute of Science and Technology, Kattankulathur campus secured the IET’s international accreditation for all of its four engineering courses.

AccreditationThe IET
Internet of Things India expo 2018: Monumental Connectivityedit

New Delhi Times

“This partnership augments our intent to strengthen the IoT movement in India – a vision that the IET IoT panel embodies.  At the IET IoT panel, we give people a neutral place beyond the borders of organisations to come together and create the roadmap to derive the best out of IoT. Hence this collaboration was an obvious choice,” said Dr Rishi Bhatnagar, Chairman, IET India IoT Panel  & President, Aeris Communications.

Dr. Rishi Bhatnagar: Chairman of IET India IoT panelIET India IoT Panel
Quality certificate for SRMedit

The New Indian Express

SRM Institute of Science and Technology, Kattankulathur, attained international quality from IET International Accreditation for all of its four engineering courses. IET provides an ideal preparation for aspiring professional engineers who will be graduating from 2017 – 2021. Four of their programmes including BTech, Electronics, Computer Science, etc. are IET accredited.

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News for other PEI

SCAD hosts global meet on intelligent sustainable systemsedit

Trinity Mirror

Of which 235 papers were shortlisted and 189 research papers were finally selected. Several scholars presented their views at the conference and the research papers will be published in IEEE xplore. Earlier, SCAD Institute of Technology principal C G Ravichandran welcomed while vice principal Duraipandian read out the conference report. Assistant Professor R Karthik proposed a vote of thanks.

IEEE
ARAI to host mega conference on e-mobility next weekedit

Auto Car Professional

Speaking about the upcoming conference, Rashmi Urdhwareshe, chair – Steering Committee ITEC-2017 and director, ARAI, “ITEC INDIA 2017 aims to help the industry in effortless transition from conventional to advanced electrified vehicles. This conference will be inaugurated by Dr Abhay Firodia, president, SIAM and chairman, Force Motors in the presence of Doug Patton, president, SAE International and Dr Tomy Sebastian, president, IEEE IAS.”

IEEE

Industry News: Information and Communications

How IoT and other technologies can help cut costs, boost yields in farm sectoredit

VC Circle

New innovations in big data, Internet of Things, satellite imagery and sensor technology can help farmers in a number of ways, including in selecting the right inputs, monitoring the soil quality and tracking market prices. This can increase productivity and drop input costs dramatically.

AgricultureIoT
45 percent of industrial companies are not adopting reliable cybersecurity measures to protect data: Reportedit

First Post

Revealing that industrial companies were not moving quickly to adopt cybersecurity measures to protect their data and operations, a study on 8 December said 45 percent of those surveyed lacked a reliable enterprise leader for cybersecurity.

Cyber Security
Robot revolution: No industry will be 100% robots even in Industry 4.0edit

Tech Observer

Despite the imminent robotic revolution, work will continue, it is only the nature of work that will change with robots

Automation
Technologies like artificial intelligence, big data impacting power sector, says Tata Power official Jayant Kumaredit

Financial Express

Technological advances like artificial intelligence, machine learning and big data are impacting the power sector as well, making it imperative for producers to re-skill resources, a senior official of Tata Power said.

 

Artificial IntelligencePower Sector

Industry News: Education

AICTE wants a minimum fee for technical coursesedit

Hindustan Times

By Neelam Pandey

A year after the regulatory body put a ceiling on the maximum fee technical institutes can charge students, the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) has now prescribed a minimum fee for the colleges governed by it.

Engineering
How to stay relevant: Why continuous learning is mandatory for alledit

The Financial Express

The changing technologies necessitated that a programmer had to keep getting re-skilled in newer technologies. But the interesting aspect is that the time to re-skill has been shrinking rapidly in the IT sector

Re-skilling
BE/BTech seats going vacant, engineering colleges turning ghost campuses; here is whyedit

Financial Express

Campus placements have been under 50% for the last five years, AICTE, the apex body for technical education in the country data suggested. Previous year, roughly eight lakh BE/BTech students graduated, but only about 40 per cent got jobs through campus placement.

Engineering

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Modi committed to moving India to lower carbon renewable energy future: World Bank Chiefedit

Money Control

Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who has set a very ambitious target for India to reduce its carbon intensity, is committed to moving the country to a lower carbon renewable energy future, World Bank President Jim Yong Kim has said.

Renewable Energy
India’s ultra-mega solar project to be discussed at France Summit: WB chiefedit

The Hans India

India’s ultra-mega solar project will come up for discussion at the One Planet Summit in France this week, World Bank President Jim Yong Kim has said. The ultra-mega solar power projects, also known as ultra mega solar parks, are a series of solar power projects planned by India to enhance its capacity from 20,000 MW to 40,000 MW.

Solar Energy
India faces painful move to cleaner energyedit

ET Energy World

India needs $140 billion to reach Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s ambitious target of installing 100,000 megawatts of solar power by 2022, according to Arunabha Ghosh, chief executive of the Council on Energy, Environment and Water, a New Delhi think tank. So far it has just 15,000 MW, less than five percent of the country’s total generation capacity of 331,000 MW.

Renewable Energy
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